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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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